The Friends of Historic Huletts Landing Speaker Series begins on Thursday July 21st at 7:30 pm at the Mountain Grove Memorial Church.
Jessica Rubin, the Director of Development and Marketing for the Fund for Lake George, a not-for-profit, privately funded organization dedicated since 1980 to the protection of Lake George will show a short video and then talk about Legacy and Low Impact Development (LID) strategies, especially as they effect storm-water runoff. The U.S. EPA has declared storm-water runoff and pollution to be the “Nation’s largest source of water quality problems.”
More than 30 years of water chemistry monitoring at Lake George reveals a decline in lake health including measurable losses to the lake’s signature water clarity. The “Queen of American Lakes” provides an ideal test bed for demonstrating how to reduce storm-water impacts through application of Low Impact Development (LID). LID practices manage storm-water as near to its source as possible, allowing for, rather than altering, the natural processes that filter and clean runoff entering the lake.